Glove-fastener



L. REITER.

GLOVE FASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.20. l9l9.

1,332,754. Patented Mar.2,192().

IN VE/V TOR [1165 Pa (fer WITNESSES mom 7 I LUES REITER, OF PROVIDENCE, .BHODE ISLAND.

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Specification of Letters ZEatent.

Patented Mar. 2, 1920.

Application filed. August 20, 1919. Serial No. 318,831.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Luns REIT-ER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Providence, county of Providence, and State of Rhode Island,.have invented a new and Improved Glove Fastener, of which the fOllOWlIlg is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to glove fasteners, and more particularly to the anvil of the fastener. The invention in general appertains to various classes of fasteners employed for the purpose of buttoning, hooking, joining, or snapping together .pieces of material such as parts of wearing apparel, dresses, gloves, and the like.

An object of the invention is to provide a glove fastener which will gain a more-substantial and a firmer grip and hold on leather, cloth, or silk, or other material to which the fastener parts are fixed in the process of manufacture. It is a particular object of this invention to provide a glove fastener with one part thereof, known as the anvil, provided with prongs, teeth orserrations in order to cause the cloth or leather to be embedded and compressibly engaged into the space formed between the prongs or teeth of the serrated anvil.

It is a further object of this invention to produc a fastener for material, and particularly to produce the anvil of said "fastener, in an inexpensive manner, and one which will prolong the life ofthe surrounding material as cloth or leather to which the glove fastener anvil and other parts are joined in the course of manufacture of dresses, gloves and other wearing apparel.

With the above principal objects and others in view, the invention has relation to the several glove fastener designs as pointed out in the claims appended hereto, and as particularly pointed out in one and preferred form of device as described in the following specification, and as portrayed in the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 shows the three major views of a glove fastener element known to the manufacturer as the anvil. The views portray a plan, side elevation, and underneath or bottom View of the anvil.

Fig. 2 illustrates two views of the anvil 1n the course of manufacture, there being illustrated a plane and side elevation.

Fig. 3 shows a cross sectional view of the anvil, and Fig. 4 shows a cross sectional assembly view of the anvil with associate parts in a stage nearing the completion of the assembly of said parts in the manufacture thereof.

Fig. 5 presents an assembly view in sectlon and illustrates the material of apparel,

such as cloth or glove material, as leather,

joined to the glove fastener.

Fig. 6 shows, in plan. view, the com letecl cap fitted with a specially designe serrated, pronged, or toothed anvil.

A glove fastener built according to the conception of my invention embodies many of the well known elements in the art of v glove fasteners, but employs a particular form and design of anvil. The invention has to do with the design and manufacture of a part provided with teeth or prongs, to provide means for positively and more surely attaching the glove fastener to cloth or leather.

Referring now more in particular to the drawings for a detailed discussion of thls cilitate the stamping and properly shaping thereof during the manufacture as is known in the art. The Fig. 2 presents the shape and formation of the anvil during an early stage of the manufacture. and shows the element after the blank has been cut and drawn.

'Fig. 3 shows the blank of the anvil out, drawn, pierced, and the prongs, teeth, or serrations bent over and concentrically groupedas shown in the plan view of Fig. 1. WVhen the prongs are bent over, open space is left between the edges forming the adjacent prongs. The bottom portion 7 of the anvil is swaged upwardly to form an interior contour of surface for the proper reception of the anvil.

Figs. 4 and 5 present assembly views of the glove fastener, and show the anvil in joined relation with other elements of the fastener. A celluloid cover 10 is provided with a support plate 11 placed on the inside thereof, and the anvil is inserted in the celluloid cover 10 and said cover spun down around the curved over rim or prongs of the anvil. This interposes the support plate 11 between the cover and the anvil and provides a solid metallic support to prevent the celluloid from being damaged or cracked by pressing it inwardly against the swaged in anvil. The upper rim of the celluloid cover is turned or spun down until it closes over against and contiguously engages and partly covers the prongs or teeth of the anvil. The spun over rim of the celluloid thus leaves a greater portion of the prongs or teeth exposed to view as shown in Fig. 6. This completes the assembly of the anvil with the support plate and celluloid cover, as depicted in the views a and 6. The assembled cel luloid cover with support plate and inserted anvil is known as the fastener cap.

The next stage of manufacture is to place the socket element into the cap or assembled fastener parts and to join said cap to cloth or leather, or gloves, or other articles of apparel. This stage of the manufacture is shown in Fig. 5. The cloth or leather 14: of the glove is applied to the cap. A hole of suitable diameter is stamped in the leather 14 which permits the cloth to lap over the teeth or prongs 8 of the anvil. The socket 15 is next applied by pressing it downwardly into the anvil until it curls around the inner contour of said anvil and becomes firmly anchored thereinto. The upper rim or flange 16 of the socket firmly presses and en gages the leather 14: downwardly against the prongs 8 of the anvil. This causes the leather to be embedded and impressed against the sharp edges of the teeth and I downwardly into the open space left beor prongs. 40

tween the ed es forming the adjacent teeth he leather 1 1 likewise becomes crimped and cramped between the adjacent outer rim of the flange 16 and the celluloid cover 10. It is seen how the leather or cloth 1 1 is securely anchored to the cap when the socket is thrust thereinto, and said cloth is most adequately engaged by three members, namely the flange 16, the teeth 8, and the celluloid cover 10.

This manner of joining the cap to leather gloves and wearing apparel of all kinds and description effectively reduces the trouble experienced with the cloth or leather, in pulling out of and turning loose from the cap and socket. The prongs and teeth add greatly to the holding power of the fastener with the leather or cloth.

The invention is presented to fill a long felt want for an eflicient and positive fastener device for gloves and articles of apparel.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is:

1. A glove fastener comprising, a cap consisting of a celluloid cover containing a support plate and an anvil, said anvil provided with serrations, prongs, or teeth formed thereon.

2. A glove fastener comprising, a cap consisting of a finishing cover, an anvil inserted therein, and prongs or teeth integrally made with the anvil.

3. A. glove fastener devlce, comprising, a

socket element having a flange or rim, an

anvil element having prongs, with open space therebetween, and cloth or leather interposed between the flange of the socket element and the prongs of the anvil element to firmly anchor said cloth or leather to the fastener.

4. A glove fastener comprising, a cap consisting of a finishing cover of celluloid, an

anvil, an anvil piece inserted therein, a

socket member thrust into the cap to engage the anvil, and one of the parts provided with serrations to grip the glove material.

5. A glove fastener comprising, a socket having a flange, an anvil havlng teeth, and

the glove material clamped between the flange 'of the socket and the teeth of the anvil.

6. Afastener device comprising, a celluloid cover, an anvil contained therein, cloth or leather glove material applied to the anvil, a socket carried in the anvil to clamp choringof the material to the fastener device.

LUES REITER. 

